What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Environmental Health Safety Coordinator position at Ross Environmental Services, Inc.?
Title: Senior Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator
Location: Elyria, OH (5 days/week onsite)
Schedule: M-F; 8 AM - 5 PM with flexibility
Must Haves:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, environmental, or a related field (equivalent work experience considered, as well).
- 5 years of experience in the environmental industry.
- Working knowledge/understanding of environmental and related regulations (RCRA, OSHA, CWA, CAA, etc.)
- Experience communicating, presenting information, and responding to questions from associates, vendors, customers or regulatory officials.
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
Plusses:
- Experience in EHS or related regulatory field
Day to day:
Operations & Compliance
- Provides high level regulatory expertise by evaluating the regulatory, permitting, or environmental implications of proposed actions. Makes recommendations on courses of action to management. Communicates to departmental personnel systems in place and trains on /audits these systems.
- Develops, maintains and implements cross-functional programs and project plans to accomplish departmental and corporate goals and objectives for all EHS regulatory programs (e.g., RCRA and CAA permitting; customer auditing; waste vendor auditing, ; Transportation program evaluation and regulatory analysis).
- Manages/Coordinates outside technical consultants, regulatory agencies, and customers to achieve project goals.
- Acts as a departmental liaison and trainer, technical expert, and regulatory consultant to RIS Operations, RIS Technology, RES Sales, RES Marketing, RES Technical Services, RTS, and new business ventures.
- Manages/tracks/audits safety, health and environmental programs.
- Monitors new rule makings or regulatory and legislative changes and communicates impacts to the organization. May participate, as necessary and appropriate, in trade associations as a regulatory liaison and subject matter expert on behalf of the companies.
- Manages, trains, and audits internal business policies and procedures such as permitting, industrial hygiene, safety programs, transportation programs, environmental programs, confidentiality, RES EHS, Vendor auditing, and Customer auditing.
- Prepares written responses to regulatory agencies as necessary.
- Acts as Project Manager Part B and Air/Title V permitting by preparing documents required to maintain regulatory compliance.
- Understands RES’ ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) and assists with executing its objectives.
- Provides support to and works closely with the RIS EHS Department in permitting and regulatory compliance interpretations.
- Provides support to the Corporate Communications department to meet all permitting public participation requirements.
- Assists as needed in Environmental Assessment activities and programs (e.g., SPCC plan, closure and corrective action, groundwater monitoring, materials management, etc.)
- Develops regulatory programs (environmental, health, safety and transportation) for new business opportunities and new regulations.
- Provides field support, data interpretation, and data validation as needed.
- Performs other job-related duties assigned.
